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as in raincoats
a coat made of water-resistant material
he put on his slicker and boots and headed out into the rain
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as in sophisticates
a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers
dressed in their designer duds, the out-of-state slickers stood out amongst the locals at the harvest supper
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Recent Examples of slickers
City slickers will definitely get a bang for their buck with this place, which is a lot more spacious than a shoebox on the Upper East Side.
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Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025
During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.
—Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025
During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.
—Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slickers
Noun
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An Umbrella And/Or Raincoat(s) Road trip or not, there is always at least one umbrella and my entire family’s raincoats in the backseat of our car.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
12 Feb. 2026
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But while British sleuths wear raincoats or umbrellas, Erica is more suited for a beautiful French scarf.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Jan. 2026
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Heartland churchgoers, urban sophisticates, football neophytes—everyone got swept up in his will to win.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
8 Feb. 2026
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Despite parents’ efforts, allowances aren’t necessarily minting a new generation of financial sophisticates.—
Michael Waters,
The Atlantic,
10 Dec. 2025
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If top-level soccer is now played by something like rootless cosmopolitans, it’s financed by billionaires who are no longer primarily European.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Cocktails that would otherwise cost $18 each - such as Margaritas, cosmopolitans, Manhattans, and Old-Fashioneds - are included in this package.—
Debbi Kickham,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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At New York Fashion Week, editors traded in classic trenches for cape coats tossed over tailoring.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
27 Feb. 2026
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Those all-weather shoes were paired with an array of trenches, from ones with dramatic ruffled collars to some with sparkly fringe, like streaks of rain.—
Violet Goldstone,
Footwear News,
25 Feb. 2026
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The American team could certainly have done without the aggravation of running to the pro shop to buy alternative waterproofs in 2010 because they were getting soaked in their official gear.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Slickers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slickers. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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